Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation (eBook)

Kai Dreisbach is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne.

Geneviève Fabre teaches at the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot).

Jürgen Heideking was Professor for Modern and Anglo-American History at the Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne.

Editors' Preface

Introduction
Geneviève Fabre and Jürgen Heideking

Chapter 1. Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United States
Jürgen Heideking

Chapter 2. The Nation as a Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788
Dietmar Schloss

Chapter 3. Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in America
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol

Chapter 4. From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National Identity
Michael Wala

Chapter 5. Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850
Geneviève Fabre

Chapter 6. Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910
Bénédicte Deschamps

Chapter 7. "... to divide their love": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909
Annick Foucrier

Chapter 8. Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic "Gemeinschaft in the 1860s
Tobias Brinkmann

Chapter 9. Demonstrating the Values of 'Gemütlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910
Heike Bungert

Chapter 10. Halloween - A Re-invented Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class America
Adrien Lherm

Chapter 11. Climate, Identity and Winter Carnivals in North America
Bernard Mergen

Chapter 12. Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898
Fabian Hilfrich

Chapter 13. Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21
Udo Hebel

List of Contributors
Index